China’s central Hubei province had 349 new confirmed cases of coronavirus yesterday, the province’s health commission said today, down from 1,693 cases a day earlier and the lowest since Jan 25. Read More (malaysiakini)
Researchers and drug companies are scrambling to develop vaccines and treatments to fight the new coronavirus that emerged in central China in December and has spread to more than two dozen countries, killing more than 2,000 people. Read More (thestar)
Two people in Iran tested positive Wednesday for the deadly new coronavirus (Covid-19), the health ministry said, in the Islamic republic's first cases of the disease. Read More (thestar)
SIHANOUKVILLE: Dozens of passengers stuck for nearly a week on a US cruise ship in Cambodia disembarked Wednesday, after being given the all-clear from a deadly coronavirus. Read More (thestar)
Singapore reported three more confirmed cases of the COVID-19 on Wednesday (Feb 19), said the Ministry of Health (MOH) in a daily update. Read More (channelnewsasia)
Hundreds of passengers who tested negative for the new coronavirus have begun leaving a quarantined cruise ship in Japan amid heavy criticism over the country's handling of the outbreak. Read More (bbc)
Another two Malaysians have recovered from the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) infection and were allowed home after being discharged from Hospital Sungai Buloh this morning, said the health minister. Read More (malaymail)
South Korea reported 15 new confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus on Wednesday – increasing its total by nearly 50 percent – including a cluster of at least 11 centred on the southern city of Daegu. Read More (nst)
A Japanese infectious diseases expert has made waves with videos slamming the government's handling of a quarantined cruise ship, racking up hundreds of thousands of views as passengers start to leave the boat. Read More (thestar)
The VCN-235 Air Force plane left Seoul Air Base in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province, at noon on Tuesday (Feb 18), and landed in Japan's Haneda Airport, 20 minutes away from the Yokohama port where the cruise ship Diamond Princess is docked. Read More (thestar)
An elderly Hong Kong man who contracted the new coronavirus died on Wednesday (Feb 19), authorities announced, the second fatality from the outbreak in the semi-autonomous Chinese city. Read More (thestar)
The death toll from China's new coronavirus epidemic went past 2,000 on Wednesday after 136 more people died, with the number of new cases falling for a second straight day, according to the National Health Commission. Read More (thestar)
Japan is set to let passengers leave a cruise ship quarantined off Yokohama, trying to assure the public it has done all it can to prevent spreading the new coronavirus from the vessel that has the most infections of any place in the world outside China. Read More (thestar)
Data from the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CCDC) finds that more than 80% of the cases have been mild, with the sick and elderly most at risk. Read More (bbc)
Jovial pictures were posted on Facebook of the married couple from China who recently recovered from Covid-19 and was discharged from a hospital in Johor Baru. Read More (thestar)